The current version of Android Auto needs your Android smartphone to be connected with the car’s infotainment system to work. With the upcoming version, Google aims to remove that need and be deeply integration in your automobile.
“With embedded it’s always on, always there. You don’t have to depend on your phone being there and on,” a source familiar with Google’s plans told Reuters.
The specifics of the this implementation are unknown at this point, but Reuters claims that we could see it in Android M-release, which is going to be the next major version of Android.
There are some obvious challenges with Google’s plan as the auto-makers will need a significant amount of persuasion to allow Google integrate its system so tightly into their cars. The existing implementation of Android Auto is far less invasive.
